How To Install python-editor on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-editor on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-editor is programmatically open an editor, capture the result - Python 2.7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-editor on Debian 10.

What is python-editor

python-editor is:

python-editor is a library that provides the editor module for programmatically interfacing with your system’s $EDITOR. The user can then enter a commit message for example.

Editor first looks for the environment variable. If set, it uses the value as-is, without fallbacks. If no $EDITOR is set, editor will search through a list of known editors, and use the first one that exists on the system. For example, on Linux, editor will look for the following editors in order:

  • vim
  • emacs
  • nano

When calling the edit() function, editor will open the editor in a subprocess, inheriting the parent process’s stdin, stdout

This package contains the Python 2.7 module.

There are three methods to install python-editor on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install python-editor Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install python-editor using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python-editor

Install python-editor Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python-editor using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python-editor

Install python-editor Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install python-editor using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-editor

How To Uninstall python-editor on Debian 10

To uninstall only the python-editor package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python-editor

Uninstall python-editor And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python-editor and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-editor

Remove python-editor Configurations and Data

To remove python-editor configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python-editor

Remove python-editor configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python-editor configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-editor

Dependencies

python-editor have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-editor package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.